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Jiah Khan's suicide: Sooraj Pancholi gets bail today

The
Bombay High Court has granted bail to Sooraj Pancholi today, Monday, 1st July. He has appealed to the
high court for bail in connection to the Jiah Khan Suicide case.He was released on a surety of Rs 50,000 (around $845)."He has been let out on bail today. He had to pay 50,000 rupees," Pancholi's lawyer Zamir Khan told Reuters by telephone.

Earlier his
case was heard by a sessions court which rejected his bail plea on account of
him abetting Jiah to suicide. The sessions court argued that, “Jiah Khan was
depressed after having an abortion, she was mentally and physically tortured by
Sooraj Pancholi, which pushed her to commit suicide.”

Sooraj
Pancholi is son of actors Aditya Pancholi and Zarina Wahab. Last month, on 3rd June actress Jiah Khan committed
suicide. After few days of her suicide, her family handed over a six page
letter to the police allegedly written by the actress. In that letter she had
blamed her boyfriend of causing her physical and mental pain. She also talked
about an abortion in the letter. She was having a relationship with Sooraj
Pancholi for the past one year. Citing this as the reason, police arrested
Sooraj and since then he is in judicial custody for interrogation.

Sooraj
is currently kept in the Arthur Road prison in central Mumbai.
According to Sooraj’s lawyers Ashok Mundergi and Shrikant Shivde, Sooraj is
being falsely implicated in the case by Jiah’s family. They call Jiah’s letter
as “after thought”. According to the lawyers, Jiah’s initial case was reported
as “Accidental Death Report” by her family. Then after few days, they produced
the letter allegedly written by Jiah. They also argue that the letter found
from Jiah’s residence does not mention any name.

Sooraj
will remain in the judicial custody till 11th July as investigators believe that
leaving Sooraj on bail would derail the investigation and might affect the
final report as well.

When
Jiah committed suicide, it was believed that the actress was depressed over her
failing Bollywood career and could not bear the rejection. However, later her
mother Rabiya called a conference at her residence and clarified that it was
not the failing career but her souring relationship with Sooraj Pancholi which
forced her to commit suicide.

Before
this case, Sooraj was all set to make a debut in Bollywood as an actor opposite
daughter of Suniel Shetty. Both were debuting together. Suniel is now looking
for another actor with whom his daughter can make a debut.

A blog
is running in favor of Sooraj Pancholi trying to harness popular support for
the boy.